Growing up with gay parents! (my experience)

My Adoption Story. Episode 1.

I was adopted from China by my gay / queer parents and grew up in New York City. This video/vlog is about going to school for the first time and having to introduce myself.

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Watch EPISODE 2: My Dads' First Date!

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[BecomingBenSmith]

WOWWW yall, this popped off!! thank you so much 🥹🥹 I’m more active on instagram now @becomingben if you want to follow and watch my newer videos there! y’all are the best❤❤ edit: maybe I'll do an AMA on my IG stories??

[SMAnthonyW]

This is proof that multicultural, queer families CAN raise well-adjusted, bright, intelligent children. It takes a village to raise children, and it doesn't matter who. As long as they are kind people.

[BURNINTHEDEEPESTPITOFHELL]

WHY IS THIS RECCOMENDED TO ME 4 YEARS LATER THIS IS A MASTERPEICE
Edit: im famous

[addeenen]

I would like to have been adopted by two gay men. In 1973, at age 11, I was placed in a home for child abuse because of my homosexuality. The result was violence by 365 boys, approximately 365 days a year. Some of the few gay kids broke down. I went into silence mode. I wish I had a dad and father instead back then.

[BlackOpal]

WHY ARE WE ALL GETTING RECOMMEND THIS 4YRS LATER😭💜 BRUHHH I would have watched this 4yrs ago🥲

[lizzfrmhon]

Love is love. As long as a child is protected, nurtured and loved, it doesn’t matter what gender the parents are. Your dads seem like great people. You’re fortunate.

[wagnalangpala]

As a bi man that once believed I couldn't start a family if I married a man. You give me hope.

[lukas_elpatron]

I have two Moms and I love you very much, I am not adopted, my biological mother and my father separated when I was 6 years old because he hit us often and my mother began go to psychology with me and there she met Camila who is now my second mother. I am not ashamed of them at all and I feel happy with them ❤️

[stonew]

Until recently I've been working as a substitute teacher. Towards the end of the last year I was in a first grade class, and one of the little boys came up to me and told me that he had two moms. I responded by telling him how cool that was and that he was very lucky and special to have two moms. I was amazed by his courage to be so open, but now that I think about it, he wasn't being courageous at all. It was simply all he knew. It was normal for him.

[Roxasora]

What makes it more amazing is that your parents filmed everything when you were kids. They really really love you so much. So much more than average straight parents to their kids.

[yuchen]

your dads both are sooo HANDSOME!!
and YOU TOO! :D

[nick]

Im a young gay guy, when I catch myself thinking about having kids, I find myself asking how they'd think and feel about having two dads. It's a big world out there, alot of people and different thinking. You, your dads, and how you were and what you are now... is just amazing to think about. Thank you.

[ktostam]

Whenever I see people say "Children deserve a mom and a dad" my mind immediately goes "but what if gay dads or lesbian moms can provide a stable parent like figure of the opposite gender, like a family friend or uncle/aunt?"
And by seeing how happy you were and are, their argument kinda... Drops. Tho many children long for a parent of a different gender, it doesn't mean all will.

[neuroseptember]

I have two moms! Nice to see you out here telling your story

[billsmith]

Yes that young Ben Smith was quite a dazzler...

[riverbanzachamploo]

I love how we're all being recommended this beautiful video now.

[The_Black_Caps]

Kids deserve parents who can give them all the love in the world, no matter the gender❤

[nesse]

i had no idea gay dads could adopt back then! But im glad they could . or thered be no ben smith!

[-Ray_Moon-]

My best friend has two moms and when we first started school I got so confused that she was the only person in my school with that- anyway, years later we’re still best friends and her moms are still the two people that I can trust the same as my own parents :)

[mikiyachi]

Your dads seems like kind, caring dads & you get to have TWO of them 💕